Safety device for ships.



W. S. SCARLETT. SAFETY DEVICE FOR SHIPS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1911.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. SCARLETT, FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTSI SAFETY DEVICE FOR .SI-IIPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 25, 1911. Serial No. 629,456.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be itknown that I, WILLIAM S. SCAR- LETI, citizen of the United States, residing at Fall River, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Devices for Ships, of which the following is a specification.

My invention aiins to provide a safety device for use on ships for the expeditious handling of passengers from the ship to the boats without danger of loss of life or injury ,to the passengers.

As is Well known it is a difiicultthing to control passengers in times of danger or panic on ships, and many injuries result,

and some times loss of life from fillingthe boats with passengers before lowering the same and after loweringlpar'tially or wholly it is difiicult to transfer the passengers from the ship to the boat particularly in cases of women and children.

My invention has for its object a safety device which will quickly and without danger transfer the passenger or passengers from any deck of the vessel to the boat. The device is also adapted to .allow. the

passengers to be transported to step into it with the greatest ease; to be handled with perfect safety between the vessel and theboat and to collapse in the boat so as to permit of the ready and safe eXit of the passengers. In the accompanying drawing, the figure shows the side of a vessel having three decks; with a boat hanging from the davits and the safety conveyer'ready for use. The vessel indicated will of course represent any ship or steamer. decks are shown.

The ordinary davits are indicated at A,

having between them a connecting cable 13..

The boat C may be of any ordinary or improved construction and is connected to the davits by the'usual blocks and tackle shown at D, The davits and-cable B are held by stays'a which have detachable connections at 6. Supported on the cable B by a pulley For convenience three or eye 0, is a block (Z between which and the block 6 plays a rope f controlled by a line having detachable connection 9. The block 6 supports in turn a safety conveyer E which is composed of double canvas or a like flexible fabric having a wooden or other ring in its bottom to keep it distended, while at its upper edge is provided a ring h to which ropes or flexible supports 2' are connected with the block 6 through the ring 70. I aim to make the safety conveyer E so that when pressure is released, as when the conveyer rests upon the deck of the ship the conveyer will collapse so that the passengers to be conveyed will step into the interior over the edge and then whenpressure is applied through the controlling rope the walls of the conveyer will be elevated around the passengers to be conveyed and the passengers may occupy a standing posiof the safety conveyer in connection with a boat as I may use it upon a single davit to lower passengers or to take up passengers.

What I claim is:

1. A safety apparatus for loading'passengers into boats comprising a pair of davits with a block and tackle at each davit for connection with the ends of the boat,

.a collapsible safety conveyer and means intermediate the davits and independent of the block and tackle thereof for lowering the safety conveyer into the boat as held Patented Feb. 6, 1912;

tion, holding the stays i as the conveyer is lowered into the boat or other place of pended from the'cross cable for manipw by the block and tackle of the davits, substantially as described.

. 2. In combination in apparatus of 'the class described, a pair of davits each with a block and tackle, a cable extending between the'clavits, a safety conve'yer of collapsible form and a block and tackle 'suslating the safety conveyer, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afiix mysignature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM S. SQARLETT. Witnesses:

v WALTER HORTON,

WVI'LLIAM E. SULLIVAN, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C. 

